Oh what a beautiful poem Melissa,

I quite love the vivid descriptions here, the image and flow is just so sweet.

I love the first stanza which shows what love should be like and the second stanza just more oompf lol if that makes sense. There is always good and bad in relationships and if it's always good then something is wrong.

You know you have a love when you are fighting for it.

Brilliant poem!!!

x

What a beautiful piece!

I really like the line 'a lilac haze of laughter', it had a bit of playfulness but also with the pairing of intoxicatingly sweet just gave me the image and sense of lilacs everywhere. Lilacs to me represent simplicity, they are just beautiful flowers that aren't over the top, simple. :)

The end of the first stanza is sensual and sweet, something so many of us want to exprience if we haven't already.

The second stanza is really the meat of the poem, as this is what I feel love is, too. Love isn't supposed to always be contentment, there are ups and downs, and if you don't believe that will happen, you're living in a fairytale and in for a rude awakening. The reality in your poem makes me smile.

That ending is brilliant, brings home the nesting idea when we find the one we love, especially when it comes to marrying and starting a family - what deeper roots can be planted? Beautifully written, as usual :)

Simply unique. Loved the way you expressed. Great write.

all the best and take care

Oh my god

What a sexy voice O.o

This poem is amazing! in every sense of the word. what a way to describe how you'd want love to be. simply outstanding, there are no other words for it.

This write has honestly left me breathless,I can't find words to say..
its almost impossible to leave an insightful comment of this cause its "simply"
too amazing. the word use was anything but complex,yet it was put in such an enchanting way
that took away all the cliche-ness simplicity often brings with it.
there is room for the reader to pull what they want out of this..
my favorite was this;

"I want for love to simply love me,"
from that I gathered the idea that love has been harsh to the writer,
you know how sometimes love just doesn't seem to like you? doesn't seem to find you?
I love the sincerity of this, its like this is what it is, simply..

"its soil freshly plowed,healthy, and waiting to give birth"

I love that too,I don't know if here the writer meant
"birth" as in innocence, or birth as always waiting to bring someting new
but that phrase flowed so nicely..

I just can't find any way to critique or to ramble on about this
its just so damn beautiful.

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So very descriptive with fantastic use of metaphor. At times this poem is both sensuous and a touch sexual, with its connection to the earth mother "Its soil freshly plowed, healthy, and waiting to give birth". Its almost like the first stanza outlined scene and the second painted the picture, but what really got it for me was the ending, which just pulled the whole piece together, giving further emphasis to the other two stanzas

Could not resist reading it at least 3 times before moving on to the next one..... then came back googly-eyed @_@ 8-], as I could not find a better love poem this week.
Simply (as in the title) worded, but nevertheless arousing and unarguably sensual. Looks like penned when sick with a gut wrenching love-flu, on a rainy day, sitting indoors,....

The choice of words here are from a connoisseur's diction, not overdone, just perfect, to portray the wanton feelings in love that one can imagine, from a woman's point of view.

And to top it all it will make the unattached readers love-sick too, with Valentine's day just around the corner.

Helpful diction for interpreting the magical words of the poetess, for the naive reader...... (from my love thesaurus :)

Wild = a savage in love
Intoxicatingly sweet= dates dipped in sweet white wine
Lilac = a unique color seen only on the cheeks of women, when first in love.
Plump seeds= Seeds from aphrodisiac plants (e.g. elecampane, vervain, and the berries of mistletoe), which balloon the heart.
Ravenous= insatiable appetite like a pigs (pigs can really devour...)....for love
Furious in love= high on aphrodisiacs
Love= an obsessive compulsive disorder, like bulimia, can be only cured by abstinence.

(Judging comment 2-12-12)